The John Newbery Award
Named for an 18th century British bookseller, the Newbery medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association to recognize the most distinguished work of literature for children.
The 2010 Newbery Medal Winner:
When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
| 2009 | Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman |
| 2008 | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village | Laura Amy Schlitz |
| 2007 | Higher Power of Lucky | Susan Patron |
| 2006 | Criss Cross | Lynn Rae Perkins |
| 2005 | Kira-Kira | Cynthia Kadohata |
| 2004 | The Tale of Despereaux:Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread | Kate DiCamillo |
| 2003 | Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Avi |
| 2002 | A Single Shard | Linda Sue Park |
| 2001 | A Year Down Yonder | Richard Peck |
| 2000 | Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis |
| 1999 | Holes | Louis Sachar |
| 1998 | Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse |
| 1997 | The View from Saturday | E.L. Konigsburg |
| 1996 | The Midwife's Apprentice | Karen Cushman |
| 1995 | Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech |
| 1994 | The Giver | Lois Lowry |
| 1993 | Missing May | Cynthia Rylant |
| 1992 | Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| 1991 | Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli |
| 1990 | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry |
| 1989 | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | Paul Fleischman |
| 1988 | Lincoln: A Photobiography | Russell Freedman |
| 1987 | The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman |
| 1986 | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan |
| 1985 | The Hero and the Crown | Robin McKinley |
| 1984 | Dear Mr. Henshaw | Beverly Cleary |
| 1983 | Dicey's Song | Cynthia Voigt |
| 1982 | A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers |
Nancy Willard |
| 1981 | Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Paterson |
| 1980 | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 |
Joan W. Blos |
| 1979 | The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin |
| 1978 | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson |
| 1977 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor |
| 1976 | The Grey King | Susan Cooper |
| 1975 | M.C. Higgins the Great | Virginia Hamilton |
| 1974 | The Slave Dancer | Paula Fox |
| 1973 | Julie of the Wolves | Jean Craighead George |
| 1972 | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien |
| 1971 | Summer of the Swans | Betsy Byars |
| 1970 | Sounder | William H. Armstrong |
| 1969 | The High King | Lloyd Alexander |
| 1968 | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E.L. Konigsburg |
| 1967 | Up a Road Slowly | Irene Hunt |
| 1966 | I, Juan de Pareja | Elizabeth Borton de Trevino |
| 1965 | Shadow of a Bull | Maia Wojciechowska |
| 1964 | It's Like This, Cat | Emily Neville |
| 1963 | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle |
| 1962 | The Bronze Bow | Elizabeth George Speare |
| 1961 | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell |
| 1960 | Onion John | Joseph Krumgold |
| 1959 | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare |
| 1958 | Rifles for Watie | Harold Keith |
| 1957 | Miracles on Maple Hill | Virginia Sorenson |
| 1956 | Carry on, Mr. Bowditch | Jean Lee Latham |
| 1955 | The Wheel on the School | Meindert DeJong |
| 1954 | ...And Now Miguel | Joseph Krumgold |
| 1953 | Secret of the Andes | Ann Nolan Clark |
| 1952 | Ginger Pye | Eleanor Estes |
| 1951 | Amos Fortune, Free Man | Elizabeth Yates |
| 1950 | The Door in the Wall | Marguerite de Angeli |
| 1949 | King of the Wind | Marguerite Henry |
| 1948 | The Twenty-One Balloons | William Pene du Bois |
| 1947 | Miss Hickory | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
| 1946 | Strawberry Girl | Lois Lenski |
| 1945 | Rabbit Hill | Robert Lawson |
| 1944 | Johnny Tremain | Esther Forbes |
| 1943 | Adam of the Road | Elizabeth Janet Gray |
| 1942 | The Matchlock Gun | Walter Edmonds |
| 1941 | Call It Courage | Armstrong Sperry |
| 1940 | Daniel Boone | James Daugherty |
| 1939 | Thimble Summer | Elizabeth Enright |
| 1938 | The White Stag | Kate Seredy |
| 1937 | Roller Skates | Ruth Sawyer |
| 1936 | Caddie Woodlawn | Carol Ryrie Brink |
| 1935 | Dobry | Monica Shannon |
| 1934 | Invincible Louisa | Cornelia Meigs |
| 1933 | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | Elizabeth Lewis |
| 1932 | Waterless Mountain | Laura Adams Armer |
| 1931 | The Cat Who Went to Heaven | Elizabeth Coatsworth |
| 1930 | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years | Rachel Field |
| 1929 | The Trumpeter of Krakow | Eric P. Kelly |
| 1928 | Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon | Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
| 1927 | Smoky, the Cowhorse | Will James |
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